Garbage in & Out

Garbage In!  Garbage Out!  

How do you feed your Soul?  

Sometimes diagrams just say it all--garbage in and garbage out!  Do you remember that saying originating with the birth of computers?  Whatever the program, that's what you get back.  If you input junk, you only get junk.  God help us if we are not more than walking computers!  In fact, God does help us when we date our birthdays from him and not just a random date of arriving on the planet.  If God is not our origin, then it is a matter of making sure that what we ingest into our minds feeds our true selves.  Not bad.  That works for many.

However, if God is our origin, then how do we feed our souls?     I use the word "soul" as the meeting place of our minds--thoughts and emotions, joined in our bodies. I do not think of the soul in the Greek sense of a disembodied property that rises out of our bodies when we die--like the scenes in the movie Ghost.

Whatever feeds your soul---remember, you are what you eat--or rather, eat to feed who you are.  St. Paul answered it this way in Philippians 4.

Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

(and then he concludes...

 Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

If on the other hand, you view yourself as meeting only a hierarchy of needs --  then have at it!  Your diet and life style could be the Epicurean delight of gluttony and pleasure in the illusion that safety is under your control.  That's extreme alright!  But your sense of identity--who you think you are--ought to have a lot to say about what you feed yourself.